In a course focusing on visual storytelling, students explore the course content through an inquiry-pro-cess that consists of creating digital productions (such as short movies and animations) and writing a scientific text discussing the process. The balancing act between practice and theory has presented some challenges when designing a course that should both provide an aesthetic & technological founda-tion for further courses as well as encouraging students to explore the course content by undertaking inquiries and writing their own research questions. An issue of the first iteration of the course was also lack of alignment between examination activity (seminar) and course activities (projects & presentations).